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Notion(s) ?
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Myths & Heroes
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they take risks
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the trip is hazardous
- they can die
- they send money > they sacrifice their wages
- they live/work in extreme conditions
- they sacrifice their lives
- they face racism & hardships
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Spaces & exchanges
- drug trafficking
- an exchange of cultures : the US culture // the Hispanic culture
- they participate to the economy
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The Idea of Progress
- regression : the US close their borders
- regression : the US policiy of immigration today ?
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Question(s)
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Can we consider immigrants as heroes ?
- doc 1 : Dulce Pinzon
- doc 2 : Obama's speech
- doc 3 : Jose Vargas
- Is immigration a good thing for the USA ?
- Is the USA still a welcoming country ?
- Do the immigrants play an important role in the US economy ?
- Has immigration a beneficial role on the US economy ?
- Could we consider immigrants as heroes or burdens ?
- Should America accept the immigrants ?
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Documents
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video
- Barack Obama's speech in 2013 (Reform on immigration)
- An immigrant family in the US / The American dream
- 4U2LEARN : News on Central American migrants
- 4U2LEARN : Underprivileged
- 4U2LEARN : Immigrant students in the USA
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texts
- Article posted on Dulce Pinzon's website
- Comment posted on Dulce Pinzon's website
- Poem by Emma Lazarus (on the Statue of Liberty)
- Article by Jose Antonio Vargas : "I am un undocumented immigrant"
- Short article (the "caravan")
- Article headline about Donald Trump's position on immigrants' arrival to the US
- 3 articles on the role of immigrants in the US economy
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pictures
- 3 pictures of South American superheroes on D. Pinzon's website
- photo of an immigrant family on Ellis Island
- graph showing the evolution of immigration from the 19th century to today
- the caravan : photo + map
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Language
- what you are obliged to do as an immigrant
- what immigrants dream of
- what they are not allowed to do
- what they are not able to do
- their feelings
- EVALUATION